KTVU

A phone on SF's Valencia Street aims to address the political divide through conversation

A social media experiment, involving modified payphones, hopes to prove that regardless of politics, people in the U.S. are more alike than different. The phone, placed by Matter Neuroscience, is on ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks – studying their clever brains can clarify human intelligence, too

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. (THE CONVERSATION) When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in ...
salisburypost

Melinda Burrell: Can brain hacks help us have better holiday conversations?

“Everyone should know this! This is really valuable information!” the man said. I was leading a training, explaining what happens in our brains and bodies when we talk across political divides.
Post and Courier

Commentary: How to have better holiday conversations

“Everyone should know this! This is really valuable information!” the man said. I was leading a training program, explaining what happens in our brains and bodies when we talk across political divides ...
Nature

The brain’s speech centre responds to universal and specific features of language

More than 7,000 languages are spoken around the world, but the human brain becomes highly specialized to process speech in an individual’s own language. Recordings from human brains reveal the shared ...
SiliconANGLE

Report: Nvidia and SoftBank to invest $1B in robotic brains startup Skild AI

Nvidia Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp. are reportedly holding talks with the robotic artificial intelligence startup Skild AI over a $1 billion investment. The proposed round would bring the startup’s ...
WPLG

Bilingual Miami Book Fair begins with 5 authors’ events on Sunday afternoon

Miami Book Fair images courtesy of Miami Dade College These Miami Book Fair images are courtesy of Miami Dade College. MIAMI — The bilingual Miami Book Fair starts on Sunday with five events featuring ...
Supply Chain

BONUS EPISODE: A Conversation With Industry Thought Leader Bart De Muynck

On this bonus episode of The SupplyChainBrain Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Bob Bowman is joined by industry thought leader Bart De Muynck, to tackle the eternal question in supply chain management: What ...
Houston Chronicle

Star-shaped cells make a molecule that can ‘rewire’ the brains of mice with Down syndrome – understanding how could lead to new treatments

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ashley Brandebura, University of Virginia (THE CONVERSATION) Delivering a ...
The Atlantic

The Costs of Instant Translation

When I heard about the “Live Translation” feature of Apple’s newly released AirPods, what came to mind was my first night out in Berlin more than 20 years ago. I was just out of college, an American ...
The Conversation

Hundreds of genes act differently in the brains of men and women

Jenny Graves receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Differences between men and women in intelligence and behaviour have been proposed and disputed for decades. Now, a growing body of ...